
Project Nighthawk Updates
(by Lindsay Herlihy) Following Becky Suomala’s retirement from NH Audubon in the fall of 2024, I was honored to step in to coordinate Project Nighthawk in May of 2025. With

(by Lindsay Herlihy) Following Becky Suomala’s retirement from NH Audubon in the fall of 2024, I was honored to step in to coordinate Project Nighthawk in May of 2025. With

(by Rebecca Suomala) Project Nighthawk staff and volunteers typically track nesting nighthawks in Concord, Ossipee, and throughout the state. In the summer of 2024, we changed focus and concentrated our

Nighthawks are endangered in New Hampshire and declining throughout their range but we don’t know why. The dawn and dusk “peent” call of these birds was once a familiar sound

Becky began working at NH Audubon in February of 1988. Back in those days there were computers with large floppy disks, no internet, and the rare bird alert was a

Nighthawks were once common in cities throughout New Hampshire, where they nested on gravel roofs and fed on insects attracted to city lights. In recent years, these acrobatic birds have